Kamatera joins MariaDB Foundation as Silver Sponsor

MariaDB Foundation announced on 24 September 2026, via its official blog, that Kamatera has joined as a new Silver Sponsor. Kamatera is a cloud infrastructure provider with data centres distributed globally, offering scalable servers and control over where and how applications are run. For those managing production MariaDB installations, the news signals another infrastructure channel officially supported by the Foundation, though it does not entail immediate technical changes to licences, pricing or requirements.

What changes in practice

According to the announcement, the collaboration between MariaDB Foundation and Kamatera will focus on two areas:

• development of practical resources for those running MariaDB in cloud environments;
• simplification of discovery and understanding of how to deploy MariaDB on Kamatera infrastructure.

The announcement text does not provide technical details on supported versions, pre-configured images or specific hosting costs: those evaluating Kamatera for MariaDB will therefore need to verify directly on the provider's website the available plans and characteristics of the VMs offered.

The statements

Anna Widenius, CEO of MariaDB Foundation, stated: "MariaDB belongs wherever developers choose to build and run their applications. That requires strong open-source technology and accessible infrastructure around the world. Kamatera's support helps us strengthen that connection and give MariaDB users another clear path from choosing the database to running it in production."

Tal Holtzer, CEO of Kamatera, added: "Open-source technologies give our customers the freedom to build infrastructure around their own requirements. By supporting MariaDB Foundation, we are helping sustain an important open-source database while making it easier for MariaDB users to take advantage of flexible cloud infrastructure around the world."

What the sponsorship means

Kamatera joins the group of organisations funding the Foundation's work on MariaDB Server, open-source development, documentation and ecosystem growth. The "Silver" tier places the contribution in an intermediate bracket of MariaDB Foundation's sponsor programme, with details on requirements and benefits by tier published on the official sponsorship programme page, linked from the announcement itself.

For those managing MariaDB infrastructures, the practical impact remains to be verified in the coming months, when the announced resources for cloud deployment should arrive.